Neo Geo

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Neo Geo
Manufacturer: SNK

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The Neo Geo is a cartridge-based arcade system, called the Neo Geo MVS, and home console, called the Neo Geo AES, developed by SNK and released in 1990. As a home console, it competed against the Sega Mega Drive and Super NES, but its comparative high cost made it a niche enthusiast system. It was originally intended as a rental-only console but was offered for sale after high demand.

Though marketed as a 24-bit console, it uses a 16/32-bit Motorola 68000 in conjunction with an 8-bit Z80 coprocessor, a popular configuration for arcade systems at the time (shared with, for example, the Sega System 16 and the Capcom CPS-2 as well as the Mega Drive). Cartridges were large and expensive, as they contained two PCBs with numerous ROM chips. Samurai Shodown, for instance, is 118 megabits on the Neo Geo, while its home conversions are 24 megabits on the Mega Drive and 32 megabits on the Super NES.

The platform was unusually long-lived, with its last game released in 2004, and its games were ported across three generations of Sega consoles (the Mega Drive, Saturn, and Dreamcast). After its discontinuation, SNK adopted the Atomiswave, another cartridge-based multi-arcade system, as the platform for its arcade games.

The MVS and AES were supported concurrently with the Neo Geo CD, a home console released by SNK in 1994. It is a version of the Neo Geo that uses compact discs instead of cartridges to reduce the cost of the media. However, the console was criticized for the lengthy load times of its single-speed CD-ROM drive and for being priced comparably to the Saturn and PlayStation while lacking their "next generation" 3D capabilities. Its last game was released in 1999.

The Neo Geo also lent its name to the Neo Geo Pocket handheld game console, released by SNK in 1998.

Neo Geo MVS games also released for Sega systems

Additionally, The King of Fighters: Dream Match 1999 and The King of Fighters: Evolution are enhanced versions of The King of Fighters '98 and The King of Fighters '99: Millennium Battle respectively, both originally released for the Neo Geo MVS.

Neo Geo AES games also released for Sega systems

Neo Geo CD games also released for Sega systems

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Non-Sega consoles
Nintendo
Nintendo Entertainment System (1983) | Game Boy (1989) | Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1990) | Nintendo 64 (1996) | Game Boy Color (1998) | Game Boy Advance (2001) | Nintendo GameCube (2001) | Nintendo DS (2004) | Wii (2006) | Nintendo 3DS (2011) | Wii U (2012) | Nintendo Switch (2017)
Sony
PlayStation (1994) | PlayStation 2 (2000) | PlayStation Portable (2004) | PlayStation 3 (2006) | PlayStation Vita (2011) | PlayStation 4 (2013) | PlayStation 5 (2020)
Microsoft
Xbox (2001) | Xbox 360 (2005) | Xbox One (2013) | Xbox Series X (2020)
Mobile
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Other
Atari 2600 (1977) | Intellivision (1979) | ColecoVision (1982) | Atari 5200 (1982) | PC Engine (1987) | CD-ROM² (1988) | Super CD-ROM² (1991) | R-Zone (1995) | Game.com (1997) | WonderSwan (1999) | Neo Geo Pocket Color (1999) | N-Gage (2003) | LeapFrog Didj (2008) | Stadia (2019)
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